"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Change More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright." "To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants." "A useless life is an early death." More In Change "As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."― Carter G. Woodson "I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."― Tahar Ben Jelloun "Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses."― William Hazlitt